I already optioned a book called The Personal History of Rachel DuPree. I also like The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill.… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Most of my books have always worked through juxtaposition, jumping through different point of views and time. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If 'Emotions in Motion' comes out right, I can write the book on the formula rock star. — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
You know what? I feel my book is kind of pointless. I didn't want to do a book, but rather than tell… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
The bible is not a religious experience for me. This book bundles together the entire culture of Judaism: our language, our history,… — Tommy Lapid Copy Share Image
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Sometimes you change to survive, and some things you don't give up, or you're too prideful, and then you think well, what's… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I was a police reporter, so I got into the worlds that I write about, and I think many of the details… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
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The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin pocket books from old ladies — Big L Copy Share Image
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Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money. — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
The title says it all: 'Little House on a Small Planet.' With population, pollution and environmental pressures weighing heavily upon us, our… — Wanda Urbanska Copy Share Image
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection... — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I knew right from the beginning that if I was going to write a book, I would write my version of the… — Manisha Koirala Copy Share Image
The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . .… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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